Top 100 Hold On Quotes
#1. He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#2. Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.
David Levithan
#3. In those moments when the two of you see things differently, you can hold on to your view, defending it and protecting it and arguing for its superiority, or you can allow your perspective to be broadened, enriched, expanded, and deepened.
Rob Bell
#4. The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?
Abe Ajay
#5. Flow is not just about what you hold on to; it is also about what you let go of.
Roger James Hamilton
#6. Ruby told me it didn't matter what a boy was thinking about you so long as you had a good hold on what you were thinking about him.
Nova Ren Suma
#7. If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen
Mariah Carey
#8. A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody ... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.
Christine Schutt
#9. When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details ... you just hold on to the feelings.
Colleen Hoover
#10. The tighter you try and hold on to something that you are afraid of losing, the more you are pushing it away.Those thoughts are filled with fear, and if you continue to persist, what you fear the most will come upon you.
Fear nothing - just think about what you want. It feels so much better!
Rhonda Byrne
#11. The desert is full of things you can't hold on to - light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships you once had.
Al Riske
#12. I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
Amy Waldman
#13. Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
Andre Agassi
#14. If you hold on to the negative, there is no room for the positive to come into your life.
Randy Gage
#15. A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
Alain De Botton
#16. I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.
Ashley Wagner
#17. What's worrying is that those in the 1 percent, in attempting to claim for themselves an unjust proportion of the benefits of this system, may be willing to destroy the system itself to hold on to what they have. This
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#18. Hope is that inner image you hold on to, the image generated by God's promises. When hope is lost, your faith no longer has a mission to accomplish. God's Word contains your reason to hope!
Evangeline Colbert
#20. If she lets go, it's all over. If I let go, it's all over. And because she is holding on so tight, I hold on so tight.
David Levithan
#21. Sometimes the worst brings out the best in you, Sometimes the lowest tide ushers in the biggest change, Sometimes the gravest wounds translate into deepest wisdom, Sometimes the nadir leads you to the zenith - All you need to do is - To Hold On
Manprit Kaur
#22. Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidity
Let yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity
Munia Khan
#23. I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.
Marisha Pessl
#24. A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
Jeph Jacques
#25. Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.
J. Sterling
#26. Dear Future You,
Hold on. Please.
Love, Me.
Dear Current You,
I'm holding on. But it hurts.
Love, Me.
Dear Past You,
I held on. Thank you.
Love, Me.
Pleasefindthis
#27. Every one of our sons leaves home at some point. They become men who can return to help us mothers in ways that no other human can. They can teach us how to live our lives better. If we hold on long enough, and love them always, they come back to us.
Meg Meeker Md
#28. The changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to live a full and meaningful life in adulthood.
Daniel J. Siegel
#29. Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.
Mariah Carey
#30. An idolatrous attachment can lead you to break any promise, rationalize any indiscretion, or betray any other allegiance, in order to hold on to it. It may drive you to violate all good and proper boundaries. To practice idolatry is to be a slave.
Timothy Keller
#31. Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
Margaret Mead
#32. There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#33. The past is what imprisons us. There are some things in this world that can never be undone. But they can be faced. They can be forgiven. And if we hold on to that, then there is a chance for us. A chance that someday. . .we will be free.
John Burley
#34. If I'm not around
I hope you'll remember me
and together we will hold on to our favorite song.
Sanober Khan
#35. If you have a dream, hold on to it, believe in it and never stop working hard to make it come true.
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
#36. Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.
Pooja Ruprell
#37. The world changed on 9/11, but it didn't give a damn what we lost or how much we hurt. It didn't stop spinning. It would go on, one way or another, and it was up to us to hold on to something, anything ... no matter how inconsequential or thin it had felt in the past.
Tucker Elliot
#38. Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .
Diana Ross
#39. My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.
Winona Ryder
#40. What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves democratic, even-handed, rational, and free of prejudice, hold on tenaciously to a standard language ideology which attempts to justify restriction of individuality and rejection of the Other
Rosina Lippi-Green
#41. The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.
Spencer Johnson
#42. It's nice to hold on to a holiday midnight a little longer than usual
Mikhail Bulgakov
#43. Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.
Joshua L. Goldberg
#44. It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to hold on to, and without the fear of ever losing it.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#45. Most people do not know themselves. The real you is not that person you are when times are great, the real you shows when everything goes wrong. Can you hold on, can you keep pushing or do you quit?
Ian Warner
#46. Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
Stevie Wonder
#47. My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#49. I remember being on Atonement and it felt very right to be there. There was so much excitement every day. I remember very vividly how it felt to be a child on a film set, and that is actually really important to hold on to for as long as you continue to make films.
Saoirse Ronan
#50. A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water
if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.
Susanna Kearsley
#51. Sometimes your heart is fullest when you know it's breaking. Sometimes, the sky has to darken so the stars can shine brightest. Sometimes your soul is happiest when the worst possible thing in your life has come to pass. Because there is nothing left to hold on to, and fear grows wings to fly.
Baylie Karperien
#52. Come on now, laddie," Dunneldeen said. "Just hold on and they'll pull you up to the plane. 'Tis a wee bit cold for a swim.
L. Ron Hubbard
#53. Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed into other, bigger noises.
This is what it sound like when the world ends.
Courtney Summers
#54. It's like when someone dies. And you can't believe they're really gone because you ran into them yesterday. They were right there with you, alive and real. And that's the memory you hold on to-the moment you mourn the most.
Because it was the last.
Emma Chase
#55. Life is important. There is nothing to hold onto. A man that drinks is throwing his life away. Don't do it, hold on to your life. There is nothing else to hold on to ...
Tennessee Williams
#56. if she wanted anything in this world, she had to hold on with bulldog tenacity until she got it.
Gerri Russell
#57. But, like most things in life, unless you really work at it, anger's a hard thing to hold on to.
Sarah Alderson
#58. Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!
Thomas Carlyle
#59. It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.
Nic Sheff
#60. He was mirroring my thoughts on Saturday night - this man is good for you, Sara - the same thoughts I'd tried so hard to hold on to.
Christina Lauren
#61. His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
Veronica Roth
#62. You're okay, sweetheart. You're okay. Just hold on, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#63. Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone had taken an apple corer to his heart and tried to dig out the center.
"I always do, Alexander," he said. "I always do.
Cassandra Clare
#64. So this is what water feels like, I think, the second before it can't hold on any longer. This is what it feels like, the second after it lets go.
Cath Crowley
#65. Jonathan tried to catch the essence of love but whether he sunk into the words of a song or the smell of his lover, he couldn't get a hold on it.
Grazyna Plebanek
#66. I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.
Audre Lorde
#67. [Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.
James A. Michener
#68. To carry a secret is to play with fire. Try to pass it on and you'd risk hurting someone else. Hold on to it and eventually you'd get burned.
Emily Thorne
#69. He closes his hand around mine and I hold on. I like his hand. It's big and holds easy but sure. It's the kind of hold that says, I got you if you want me, but I'll let you go if you feel like running for a while.
Karen Marie Moning
#70. It would be nice to have something alive to hold on to right now, something to love me, something with a beating heart that I can feel, something to be with me as I sit here, in hell, trying to figure it out.
Caroline Kepnes
#71. Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.
Leo Buscaglia
#72. You have to fight to hold on to the important things.
Anna Jarzab
#73. But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
Earl Browder
#74. Words are like leaves blowing in the wind, they're hard to hold on to; but once you have it never let go.
Kris Harte
#75. I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.
Rick Yancey
#76. Someday your children will leave; you can't hold on to them or control them forever, nor should you.
Billy Graham
#77. I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.
Melanie Benjamin
#78. Oh! it is not my remembering God, it is God's remembering me which is the ground of my safety; it is not my laying hold of His covenant, but His covenant's laying hold on me.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#79. I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.
Ishmael Beah
#80. Tell me what do you do when you've done all you can and it seems like you can't make it through? Well you just stand, stand, stand, don't you dare give up. Through the storm, through the rain, through the hurt , stand through the pain, hold on, be strong, God will step in and it won't be long.
Donnie McClurkin
#81. When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things are happening for.
Dakota Fanning
#82. If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?
Iyanla Vanzant
#83. Doubt is like a thorn you can't get a hold on.
Melanie Raabe
#84. It's better to risk everything than hold on to nothing
Adrian Hadzic
#85. It's a bitch and life's a rollercoaster ride.
The ups and downs will make you scream sometimes.
It's hard believing that the thrill is gone,
But we gotta go around again, so let's hold on.
- Lie to Me
Jon Bon Jovi
#86. Hold on to the reins of Love and don't be afraid.
Hold on to the real behind the false and don't be
afraid.
Rumi
#88. He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
Thomas Carlyle
#89. And I know, when things look the worst is when something new and wonderful is about to happen, if we can just hold on.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#90. I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.
David Platt
#91. As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.
Rob Lowe
#92. McCarthy in his typical wild swinging fashion, with no regard for facts but with a hold on his audience that is frightening,
Judy Blume
#93. For us to move forward, we have to develop the courage to forward what is behind...the hurt/pain and unpleasant memories that haunt us in the dark moments. We must hold on to our faith as we step out in boldness, strongly believing that our very best lies ahead.
Kemi Sogunle
#94. Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.
John C. Maxwell
#95. I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.
Michel De Montaigne
#96. From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.
Rachel
#97. There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
Candice Accola
#98. We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.
Pierre Laval
#99. You hold on to life until it gets ripped away from you. Even if it gets ripped away in pieces. You just hold on.
Nick Cutter
#100. It's these darn barbecues. It's so hard to stand and hold on to a plate full of food, a drink and your dignity at the same time
Emma Goldrick
